Common myths about organ, tissue donation and transplantation

• People with money can unfairly move up on organ transplant lists.
• Doctors are able to "find" organs for patients.
• Organs are stolen from people and sold on the black market (the "stolen kidney" urban legend).
• People waiting for an organ hope that other people die so that they might live.
• Doctors waiting for an organ to transplant hope patients die.
• If a person is dying and someone else needs an organ, doctors will not make efforts to save that person's life.
• Only "good" people deserve organ transplants
• Someone is a good person simply because he or she is an organ donor.
• Organ recipients take on the characteristics of their donor (transmutation).
• People won't want a person's "damaged" organs.